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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Colchester Derivative, Polden Hill type brooch c. AD 75 - 175. The bow of the brooch has a comma shaped profile and is D-shaped in cross section. The bow tapers from a wide head to a point above a well defined bulbous knopped foot. The wings are semi-cylindrical in plan with pierced, closed end caps. Each wing has a wedge attached to the head. The axis bar, spring and pin of the brooch are lost, however, the spring would have been enclosed in the wings. It would have been secured in place by a rearward facing hook on the head of the brooch but this hook has been broken. Each wing has pierced end plates and these would have supported the axial rod of the spring. The inside of the wings is filled with a brown residue/ paste. The catch plate is broadly sub-triangular in plan and is complete. It measures 15.46mm in length and extends from a ridge that commences at the head of the brooch. The catchplate is rolled at the top to form a U shaped pin rest. Below the catch plate a turned foot knop extends. It terminates in a small stud at the base of the foot.The bow is decorated with ridge running down the length of the spine but this has become worn and abraded in places. Either side of the ridge is a series of lentoid shapes possibly arranged in a saltire pattern also running down the length of the bow.The brooch has a mid green colour with a well formed patina. It has become worn and abraded in places, possibly due to movement in the soil.Similar Polden Hill type brooches can be seen in Hattat's Visual catalogue of ancient brooches (2000) p.300, Fig.159, Cat. Nos. 379, 380 for basic shape and style of decoration.The brooch measures 54.8mm in length, 22.9 in width across the wings, 9mm in width across the bow, 5.8mm in thickness across the bow at the same point and weighs 16.8g.
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